Norbert Gstrein: On the lost post of Reason

In his new novel 34;D he coming years 34; does Norbert Gstrein ask what our political actions are supposed to determine: empathy or sobriety?

Norbert Gstrein: On the lost post of Reason
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  • Page 1 — on lost item of Reason
  • Page 2 — always says: Lie
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    Once again y sit toger and quarrel: Natascha, DeutscheSchriftstellerin, and Richard, Austrian glacier researcher. For weeks y have been turning around in a circle, perhaps even longer, and have not yet noticed aim Wasto until re was an occasion, a spark that denKonflikt ignited. "Why," asks Richard Natascha in a very provocative way, "do people not simply donate money and let dieArmen with ir pungent paternalism and ir ridiculous narzisstischenSchüben in peace?" And Natascha is just barely answering fact that man at such a moment is showing his true innerness. And thus a derGrundkonflikte by Norbert Gstreins is named new novel: The Warm and dasKalte. Or, less figuratively speaking: emotion and ratio.

    DerÖsterreicher Norbert Gstrein has not written a novel about DieFlüchtlingskrise, which must be emphasized. The coming years, like every book VonNorbert Gstrein, is a literary expression of doubt that complex situations can easily be represented; That it was as etwasgibt as an absolute truth that would write down and Anschließendverkünden. Be it in novels such as craft of killing or DieWinter in south, which tell of war and individual entanglement rein; be it in a glamorous book like a clue from beginning – EsGstrein has always been about making it clear that reality is not The image is what media, and that means not only " media", convey.

    Literary critique, reminders

    NorbertGstrein has found a way to reconcile content and form of his elaborately konzipiertenundly composed novels: he tells Inlongs, seductive loops. He writes beautiful, sounding, EleganteSätze, which are quite calculated to conceal that everything could be exactly as Esuns is being told – or even quite different. This is particularly important in new novel for coming years, because book can be read in an enlightening way at ErstenReaktionen, what is happening, Wennvermeintliche literary critique not literature, but connotations rezensiertund beyond Commits beginner's mistake, confuse author with his Erzählerzu.

    Richardheißt man, a natural scientist; A recognized glaciologist, DessenWort has weight in terms of glacier and climate research, and worldwide. That glaciers melt and that Richard's work and Forschungsgegenstandebenso gradually losing oneself threatens as well as strength of Bindungzu of his wife Natascha, is one of fine by novel HindurchgewobenenMotivfäden. Natascha in turn, writer, has a few months, bevorRichards narrative, which provided in East Germany on a lake GelegeneFerienhaus a Syrian refugee family. The sorgtfür unrest in village, but is primarily an act of VermeintlichenNächstenliebe, which Gstrein serves to check perception undDarstellungsmöglichkeiten of actions.

    Date Of Update: 30 March 2018, 12:03
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